Supporting educators’ wellbeing, innovation, leadership, and learning in communities of practice through responsive, holistic strategies.
Center for Professional Learning
Supporting educators’ wellbeing, innovation, leadership, and learning in communities of practice through responsive, holistic strategies.
Childhood Education International’s Center for Professional Learning (CPL) supports educators worldwide through professional learning rooted in holistic and sustainable learning principles.
Our professional development resources are created with educators for educators. We use a co-creation process of collaborative learning and growth in our communities of practice, and we work across a variety of settings, with a primary focus on education in emergencies, including refugee displacement, crisis, migration, and resettlement contexts.
CPL is available to work with you to realize your team’s professional development goals.
We offer partnership opportunities to state departments and ministries of education to elevate teaching and learning in their nations/states.
Our methodologies are particularly well-suited to emergency, crisis, conflict, displacement, migration, resettlement, and lower-resourced contexts, where we have worked over the past six years to co-create resources with teachers for teachers and in alignment with state/national standards and priorities.
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We offer customized professional learning opportunities for PreK-12 educators, administrators, and building/program staff.
CPL aims to support education leaders as they create and sustain transformative systems that ensure equity, belonging, wellbeing, and success for every member of their learning community.
Together we can address systemic concerns and amplify existing assets and joy in your community. Educators are central to the smooth functioning and high quality teaching and learning happening in your local education system. Let us support your team!
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We help site leaders set and sustain a path to enhanced learning experiences and outcomes for staff and students.
CPL knows the difference that an excellent building leader (principal, head teacher, etc.) or program director can make in the lives of their teachers, students, and families. Knowledge-sharing and perspective-taking are at the heart of our work. Let us help create space for these practices and much more in your community.
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We empower PreK-12 educators on their professional learning journeys.
CPL centers educator wellbeing, innovation, leadership, and learning in everything we do. We believe in you — teaching assistants, early childhood educators, paraeducators, primary and secondary school teachers, counselors, social workers, leaders — and are here to uplift your wisdom, passion, and commitment while helping you to advance your competencies, confidence, and joy as an education practitioner.
We promote connections and ensure support that envelops learners of all ages and backgrounds.
At CPL, we view education as a holistic undertaking that requires the care, support, and advocacy of many people, including community based organizations, non-profit and non-governmental organizations, civic society groups, parent and family associations, youth leadership organizations, and more. Together we can create a more welcoming, belonging, inclusive, and joyful education ecosystem.
We offer several online communities where educators can connect with each other to share resources, network, learn from each other, and support each other’s wellbeing. We welcome educators to join any or all these communities:
CPL’s work is advanced by an experienced and dedicated team of staff members.
The Center for Professional Learning was founded in 2016 by Dr. Diana Woolis, who served as CPL Director from 2016-2022, and Gareth Crawford, CEO of the Carey Institute for Global Good. Originally called the Center for Learning in Practice, it was a part of the Carey Institute until 2021, when it became a part of Childhood Education International.
Renamed the Center for Professional Learning in 2022, the work continues to thrive as it scales up, out, and deep.
Do you want to learn more? Please contact us.